The holier-than-thou candidate’s campaign ended in a boatload of debt and it appears he “has missed every deadline to file the required financial statements since then.”

Almost a year ago to today, Fuzzy blogged about McMullin’s financial problems. The Salt Lake City Tribunenoted that he still owed $670,000 to vendors, which could cause a problem for him if he ever wanted to run for office again.

It looks like those money problems have not gone away and may be worsening.

McMullin’s committee was nearly $645,000 in debt just after the 2016 presidential election, according to a financial statement the group filed to the FEC in December 2016. By July 2017, it increased to nearly $670,000, that month’s filing shows.

That was the last financial statement McMullin’s committee filed. Since then, the organization has missed three deadlines, including one that passed Sunday. The FEC has consequently sent the group warnings that it could face penalties if it doesn’t provide the necessary information.

“It has come to the attention of the Federal Election Commission that you may have failed to file the above referenced report of receipts and disbursements or failed to file a report covering the entire reporting period as required by the Federal Election Campaign Act,” reads a February letter from the FEC.

“The failure to timely file this report may result in civil money penalties, suspension of matching funds payments, an audit or legal enforcement action,” the letter continues. “The civil money penalty calculation for late reports does not include a grace period and begins on the day following the due date for the report.”

McMullin’s campaign received four letters from the FEC before the February letter. The commission wanted to know “why it submitted amended versions of its financial statements with increased debt.” A letter in March 2017 about the filings from September 2016 noted that the forms included “an increase in debts owed to one or more vendor(s) totaling $339,389.57.”

The committee was “immediately confronted with the difficulties of acquiring vendors, recruiting volunteers, raising money, obtaining ballot access, and organizing for the election which was a mere 85 days away” after it was formed, the group’s treasurer, Jeffrey Carson, wrote in a letter to the FEC. “Given these circumstances, there was a lack of organization in the initial committee structural and vendor acquisition phase.”

“Unfortunately, this led to outstanding vendor invoices being unreported as debts owed by the committee,” Carson continued. “Once the committee was structurally sound, the committee’s outstanding invoices were discovered” and it “amended its past FEC reports.”

“The committee has since taken measures to adopt and implement organizational best practices which should prevent errors like this from occurring in the future,” he concludes. However, the committee only filed one additional financial statement following the treasurer’s letter.

Like I said, since the election, McMullin has maintained his holier-than-thou attitude on social media, even bashing Trump for his debt.

No one should be surprised that the self-described “King of Debt” is going to add trillions to what future American generations owe China and others. What’s unexpected is how many so-called conservative leaders are helping him do it. https://t.co/3gZr3NYtNV

Comments

As much as I would like to participate in the wonderful feeling of schadenfreude for this well-deserved pest, I’m going to take the advice of my mother who said, “If you can’t say anything nice about somebody, say nothing at all.”

McMullin was a Potemkin candidate whose only goal was to elect Hillary Clinton. And he stiffed all those backers who made the foolish mistake of trusting him to pay back the money he’d borrowed.

The best possible outcome would be if Egghead gets sanctioned for campaign finance violations, and his backers end up losing every penny they loaned to him. It would teach them a good lesson about credit risk.

1) anyone who objectively is working for the establishment of the Socialist paradise is exempt from all laws and it will be so ruled once Democrats are formally back in power.

2) as far as any holdover debt, if Eggs McMuffin should run again to draw votes away from anyone to the right of Trotsky; you can be sure that Leftist donors [probably from Silicon Valley] will cover his old debts and fund his new campaign.

Consider independent write-in candidate for president Evan McMullin. He has virtually no chance of winning the election on November 8, but he does have a shot at being chosen as our next president.

It’s a long shot. Very long. But if McMullin managed the greatest upset of all time, it would be a very good thing, and not just because so many of us would rather see someone other than Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump in the White House.

McMullin, whom I’ve met several times, is an earnest, patriotic, and brave man who spent nearly a decade serving his country undercover in the CIA. He was until recently the chief policy director of the House Republican Conference. He would not be my first choice for president under normal circumstances. But that horse long ago left the barn — and then got hit by a truck.

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Personally, I wouldn’t mind if the Electoral College rejected them both and just picked McMullin as a matter of conscience.

Does his organization even still exist? I mean, with those kind of finances, he isn’t going to be paying anyone to file reports with the FEC. Maybe he should announce his candidacy for 2020. That should bring the donations rolling in and erase this annoying debt thingy right away!

This candidacy was a thoroughly ridiculous effort. I still can’t believe that anyone in American politics, no matter how vicious or destructive or delusional, would also be stupid enough to bother with such a quixotic campaign. Yet it happened.

This is the second big thing I really don’t understand about the last election. (The first is why Hillary canceled her triumphant fireworks extravaganza right when she was on—as she thought—the verge of ultimate conquest … not like her at all.)

You people do know that someone near and dear to your hearts who was also a candidate for President in a recent election has a history of stiffing creditors. He has been known to tell small businessmen that it will be a fruitless exercise to sue him because it will cost more in fees than the creditor will win.

This comment is serious and factual. Those of you who have been paying close attention know this. So why are you making sport of McMullin when there is a much bigger fish whom you celebrate?

Calling you hypocrites does not do justice to your lack of ethics and morality. Heal thyself.

He’s telling the exact truth, as hundreds of Trump’s victims can and have testified. He told them openly to their faces that they could whistle for their money; they could either take what he felt like paying or run up the legal bills suing him. We need “loser pays” in this country.

Back to those Polish workers, despite Trump’s boasts about his record with lawsuits and how he never settles, he had to pay out a tidy sum.

Trump paid $1.375 million to settle the case, with $500,000 going to a union benefits fund and the rest covering lawyers’ fees and expenses. The case was settled in 1998.

This was backbreaking work, and by the accounts of those on the job, the Polish workers were frightened illegal immigrants, unaware of their rights, and often the butt of jokes by the union workers who were getting paid much more for the work they were doing.